To Charles Emile Reynaud

He forged alive an innovative art,
Where love of science merged refined with passion;
He raised the infant up unto a start
That swept the globe sustaining more than fashion.

Though destitute in later life confined,
He trekked ahead beyond the common man;
With decades in creative fields, refined
The strips, projections, music, show and plan.

What other person brings such genius out
From all across the historied creation?
What other man could perservere through doubt,
And form together arts to their summation?

No artist but Reynaud has made the animated
From nothing but the seeming dead created!